Your Right to Know

SAN DIEGO — For San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who faces a torrent of sexual-harassment
allegations, the message is that his alleged behavior is too boorish even for Hooters restaurants,
best known for their scantily clad waitresses and the patrons who ogle them.

Four San Diego-area Hooters restaurants have posted signs saying the 70-year-old Democrat and
former congressman “will not be served in this establishment. We believe women should be treated
with respect.”

The signs are actually the creation of conservative radio talk-show host Glenn Beck, who began
offering them last week as an Internet download from his website.

Beck has cited the Filner scandal as one of several high-profile cases of sexual misconduct by
Democrats in contesting the assertion by some Democrats that the Republican Party is waging a “war
on women.”

Nearly every elected official of both parties in San Diego has called on Filner to resign, and a
bipartisan campaign seeking his ouster through a recall election has been launched.